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La Môme

  • 2007
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  • 2h 20m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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La Môme (2007)
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Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life ... Read allBiopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

  • Director
    • Olivier Dahan
  • Writers
    • Isabelle Sobelman
    • Olivier Dahan
  • Stars
    • Marion Cotillard
    • Sylvie Testud
    • Pascal Greggory
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    93K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Olivier Dahan
    • Writers
      • Isabelle Sobelman
      • Olivier Dahan
    • Stars
      • Marion Cotillard
      • Sylvie Testud
      • Pascal Greggory
    • 287User reviews
    • 189Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 48 wins & 61 nominations total

    Videos4

    La Vie En Rose
    Trailer 2:02
    La Vie En Rose
    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith At Gerny
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    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith At Gerny
    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith At Gerny
    Clip 2:53
    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith At Gerny
    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith Sings The Anthem
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    La Vie En Rose Scene: Edith Sings The Anthem
    La Vie En Rose Scene: La Vie En Rose
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    La Vie En Rose Scene: La Vie En Rose

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    Marion Cotillard
    Marion Cotillard
    • Edith Piaf
    Sylvie Testud
    Sylvie Testud
    • Mômone
    Pascal Greggory
    Pascal Greggory
    • Louis Barrier
    Emmanuelle Seigner
    Emmanuelle Seigner
    • Titine
    Jean-Paul Rouve
    Jean-Paul Rouve
    • Louis Gassion
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Louis Leplée
    Clotilde Courau
    Clotilde Courau
    • Anetta
    Jean-Pierre Martins
    Jean-Pierre Martins
    • Marcel Cerdan
    Catherine Allégret
    Catherine Allégret
    • Louise
    Marc Barbé
    Marc Barbé
    • Raymond Asso
    Caroline Silhol
    Caroline Silhol
    • Marlene Dietrich
    Manon Chevallier
    • Edith - 5 years old
    Pauline Burlet
    Pauline Burlet
    • Edith - 10 years old
    Élisabeth Commelin
    • Danielle Bonel
    • (as Elisabeth Commelin)
    Marc Gannot
    • Marc Bonel
    Caroline Raynaud
    Caroline Raynaud
    • Ginou
    Marie-Armelle Deguy
    • Marguerite Monnot
    Valérie Moreau
    • Jeanne
    • Director
      • Olivier Dahan
    • Writers
      • Isabelle Sobelman
      • Olivier Dahan
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    9Flagrant-Baronessa

    I'm coming to the conclusion that this is the best biopic I have ever seen

    It is difficult to overstate the necessary calibre of a woman who was raised in a filthy whorehouse, sung and slept on the street, travelled with the circus, lost her child at 20, went blind for a time, was wrongly accused of murder, struggled with a drug addiction and lost other loved ones by the bucketload in her life, and still got up on stage at the end of her life to sing "Je ne regrette rien". La Môme documents each stage of Edith Piaf's life with creative direction and an intense performance by its lead actress, Martion Cotillard.

    Ultimately it is a film that curiously enough does not come down to acting or story so much as it owes everything to its direction by Olivier Dahan. Audiences have been divided thus far on his efforts as they are somewhat unorthodox, but I believe he has truly done something magical with what could have fallen prey to a by-the-numbers biopic approach. In La Môme, the continuity is clipped and fragmentary at several points in the film, with scene 2 melting into scene 1 as opposed to vice versa. The story of Edith seems to fledge itself around two or three story lines simultaneously – her youth, her adulthood and her last days.

    Marion Cotillard, a personal favourite of mine, is perfect at each of the aforementioned stages, having met the wonders of realistic make-up but also clearly having connected with the character of Edith Piaf. As a young singer she is fumbling and bird-like, but always with raw intensity behind her performance. As an old lady (although from what I understand she was never truly that old at the time of her death) she has transformed into something else – a kind of loud, hysterical diva who is alternatively self-depreciative and overbearing, her youthful humility having been quenched by years of alcohol abuse and her bird-like body and gait having been crippled by rheumatism. Only once does Cotillard vaguely emerge from her character, and it is toward the end when Edith is sitting on a beach in California giving an interview. The rest of the film she is wholly chameleon-like and indistinguishable from la môme.

    Certainly this type of tragicomic drama with all of its poverty-stricken episodes and heart-rending tragedies is primed to elicit an emotional response, but Dahan goes the extra mile in polishing the story for audiences. It truly is a beautiful work of art, coated with sweeping tracking shots á la Paul Thomas Anderson or Martin Scorsese blended with shakycam to capture the fast, fickle pace of the business, endlessly creative intercutting of continuity and breathtaking scenes after another. When Piaf's beautiful hands have been noted, a muted performance is given in which the camera only focuses on her theatrics and hand gestures. Yet the best scene takes place in Piaf's apartment some 2/3s into the film in which she is waiting for her lover Marcel to fly in from Morocco. I shall give no spoilers. The film is momentarily gray and depressing, only to jerk the audience away from the misery and lose itself in a blossom-strewn pictorial style whenever Piaf goes on stage.

    La Môme is a one-woman-show in all respects, with Cotillard shamelessly relegating every other cast member to the background with her emotional intensity. But in all fairness supporting characters are not given much screen time in the film, seemingly floating away from the central story eventually, or dying in some tragedy, illustrating the lonely life of its titular singer. La Môme needs to be seen to be believed, for it unexpectedly floors all other musical biopics of recent years – or indeed ever.

    9 out of 10
    9hotlthr-1

    No Regrets

    It is a crime that most people in America do not know of Piaf or her music. Or if they do it is thanks to the Grace Jones version of LA VIE EN ROSE (which is not half bad).

    Marion Cotillard as Piaf was a dream to watch... particularly when she played the older Piaf. Her pain, her loss came through exquisitely. And even the two actresses who played Piaf earlier in life were excellent. The director - Olivier Dahan - has been criticized (and rightly so) in other postings. But in the case of the 3 Piafs he has done his job well, creating the full character of the woman.

    And for me the highlight was toward the end when Piaf sings NON,JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (NO REGRETS). The song written for Piaf is a summation of the film and her life. And for the first time in a VERY long time, I actually had tears on my face in a cinema.

    That alone is a very high recommendation.
    10herrbigbadwolf

    This movie...it's a poem about a poet...

    ...a song about a singer.

    I adore it. Nothing else is there to be said, really. The acting, all round, is sensational, but the lead, Marion Cotillard's portrayal of Edith Piaf, is beyond words. More astonishing even, I'd dare to say, than what Bruno Ganz did with Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (although Ganz had only a mass murderer and historical criminal to work with, while Cotillard was dealing with, pardon me for saying, the soul of an entire nation).

    I would like to comment on the script. The little symbolic moments, full of grief, full of such a profound sadness...I have never seen this done so well. Certain elements of the story, a conversation or object, are only within the lasting of the film transformed from everyday, mundane stuff into everlasting symbols of affection, of redemption and personal torment.

    You see, this is the strong point of the film - it tries to(and often it manages) make you cry because of her tough life, but at the end you are crying because of the good things that happened to her. They too, are over: Edith never even regrets the bad ones.

    The music is a whole story on its own. I've loved Piaf for some years now, but, alas, I don't speak French, and now, at last, I have some context to place the songs into...and it breaks me. It really does.

    I saw the movie yesterday, went home, and listened to Edith's albums for hours, and they meant so much...they spoke volumes.

    Anyway, the direction is perfect, although there is one scene towards the end which has problems - it tells, for the very first time, of a rather important event in the much earlier years of the singer's life , and the event in question seems to be out of place, sort of neglected - as if it should have been dealt with an hour earlier. But this is only one tiny scene, and even it, in itself, is masterfully done. Everything else is flawless.

    The cuts and the singing are blended brilliantly together. I was especially struck, which is strange, by the end credits: they are very unusual and touching for a movie which is this musical (find out why!).

    Anyway, my deepest recommendations. See it, it is really excellent. It is dark and human and bright, and full of spectacular music.

    It is the 20th century.

    I fell in love with it.

    You might too.
    9gregorybnyc

    A Magnificent Biopic, but Overwhelmingly Sad

    Piaf's tumultuous life receives a superb framework in this excellent biopic. I've read some criticism of Dahan's editing style which switches often to various parts of her all-too-brief life, but with a woman of such roiling emotions and dramatic upheavals, how could it not be so? The two things I found missing here were her WWII Resistance activities and her final marriage to a man twenty years her junior. But then again the film might have approached the three- hour mark and at nearly two and a half, you walk away feeling as though you witnessed a train wreck in slow-mo. Please do not let this prevent you from seeing an astonishingly fine recreation of a life that is so fully lived you cannot believe it. Piaf's magnificent, emotional singing is fully complemented by Cotillards balls to the wall performance. Heart and soul are in total sync here and Cotillard manages to age astonishingly well. This is a terrible tale of a child grotesquely abandoned emotionally by her parents. Piaf's will to live is inspiring even in the face of self-destruction that makes Judy Garland's own battles with alcohol and drugs seem minor in comparison. The parallels to both women are hard to ignore. The rest of the cast is first-rate, and the film beautifully evokes the eras covered in her life. Best of all there is the great Piaf recorded legacy which is well-handled here. There's no sense that Cotillard is not singing and that's a testament to the skill that suffuses this fine film. Excellent.
    10djedj44-1

    I've just seen it

    I've just seen that movie tonight on a private screening. This is really a great film, very moving. The directing is original and really not academic. All the cast is incredible and Marion Cotillard IS Edith Piaf... I can't find words to express what is more to me than a great job. I couldn't believe that the film lasted 140 minutes, I thought I was there just for an half an hour. That maybe the only bad point: Piaf's life was so rich that maybe you want to know more about it and wish that the film was longer, but at least it would have been a mini-series.

    Just run and watch it as soon as possible! Sorry if my English isn't good enough to express all the good feelings I have for that film.

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    • Trivia
      Marion Cotillard is one of only six actors to have won an Academy Award for a role spoken mainly in a non-English language. Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Benicio Del Toro, Roberto Benigni and Christoph Waltz are the other five.
    • Goofs
      Just before a young soldier plays a song for Edith in her apartment, a supertitle reads "February 1940." An issue of "Paris Match," first published in 1949, is on the coffee table.
    • Quotes

      American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?

      Edith Piaf: Love.

      American journalist: To a young girl?

      Edith Piaf: Love.

      American journalist: To a child?

      Edith Piaf: Love.

    • Connections
      Featured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #5.11 (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Heaven Have a Mercy
      Music by Philippe-Gérard

      Lyrics by Jacques Larue

      Performed by Édith Piaf

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    • Release date
      • February 14, 2007 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
      • Czech Republic
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La Vie En Rose
    • Filming locations
      • Prague, Czech Republic(scenes supposed to take place in Paris in the 1950s)
    • Production companies
      • Légende Films
      • TF1 International
      • TF1 Films Production
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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,301,706
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $179,848
      • Jun 10, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $87,485,236
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 20m(140 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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